small gestures

Marc Monzó, Karin Johansson, Kim Buck,

25 June - 2 August 2025

In an era dominated by spectacle and scale, small gestures offers a quiet, powerful counterpoint. This exhibition brings together the work of three acclaimed contemporary jewellers—Marc Monzó (Catalonia), Karin Johansson (Sweden) and Kim Buck (Denmark)—whose practices are rooted in restraint, precision, and poetic intent.

While these pieces may be modest, their impact is anything but. Each maker employs a highly attuned sense of form, material and meaning, resulting in works that speak volumes through minimal means. Whether through a finely honed edge, a playful interruption of expectation, or a subtle shift in surface, the jewellery in small gestures invites close looking and thoughtful engagement.

Marc Monzó’s minimal and concise meetings of form with material offer clarity and quiet wit. Karin Johansson's eloquent, skilful pieces hum with colour and warmth. Kim Buck, ever incisive and ironic, offers jewellery as a tool for reflection and wry comment as much as adornment.

What unites these three artists is not a shared aesthetic but a shared approach: an understanding that less can still be more; that minimalism, when wielded with care and conviction, can be deeply expressive. Their pieces are not loud declarations, but precise statements—each one a gesture of intent, finely calibrated and deliberately placed.

In small gestures, the power of jewellery is revealed not through excess, but through exactitude. It is a reminder that some of the most resonant expressions are those that ask us to pause, to look again, and to listen closely.

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